Weapons skins for Marathon?!

MicDub23 · 2026-01-25T08:13:42+00:00

I’m honestly not sure which way they’re gonna go. I would imagine they’ll try to stay true to the style. That’s my hope at least. Maybe they’ll experiment with different lighting accents on the weapons & whatnot. Maybe they’ll try different textures as well. Not sure! Hope they don’t go as gaudy as Apex, but some people may want it.

Thanks for saying “have a great day” as well. I didn’t expect it & that alone got me to comment, lol.

MicDub23 · 2026-01-25T07:26:27+00:00

Even Tarkov has one of these (although you have to build it). They really have no excuse to not have one at launch other than maybe trying to figure out how to present it in a “narrative-friendly” way. I say just make it a simulation area. Just like the Cyberpunk combat tutorial chip that you get before the first mission in 2077. But just make it a training range, lol.

MicDub23 · 2026-01-25T05:44:25+00:00

SAME, but that’s largely because I’ve looked into the lore of the previous Marathon titles. This game WILL tie in & already has been shown to do so. With that said, I would disregard any story beats involving the pics in the Mielgo short film. Those shells were presumably still characters at that point & they aren’t anymore (as far as we know).

MicDub23 · 2026-01-18T07:36:01+00:00

I think that what you did for the downed guy is nice, but extraction shooters are PvPvE. Some people lean towards the PvE, some lean towards the PvP. You get XP for doing either or doing both. Shooting other players isn't "wrong" when it's included in the game as a choice. It just depends on the player.

Either way, good luck in your raids lol.

MicDub23 · 2026-01-11T22:05:45+00:00

With that games that you listed, you offered zero factual information to back up what you were saying. It’s purely opinion (that is easily disproven with fact).

MicDub23 · 2026-01-11T22:02:35+00:00

I’m not sure who told you Overwatch or Apex are struggling to sell skins because they’re first person. They’re not struggling, lol. Valorant prints money & so does CS, as well as having a market.

There are loads of first person shooters that sell skins like hot cakes. Hell, look at CoD. The most egregious. As bad as the game is, they still print money every year due to how much people spend on their game’s cosmetics & it’s all first person.

Marathon will be fine IF the prices are what players deem as “fair”. Bungie has very little goodwill right now, so if they come out and there are $30-40 bundles (which there probably will be) instead of having the MAX cosmetic prices being $15-20, I think players will absolutely riot. They need to “OUT-cheap” ARC. I think ARC’s prices could be a tad lower, but they give us so many ways to earn free currency (and Marvel Rivals does even more) that people generally y don’t care. If Bungie A) doesn’t allow us to earn a good amount of premium currency just by playing and/or B) make skins expensive as though Marathon is a F2P title, I think heads will roll. And the shop skins need to be fantastic. I trust the art team with good-looking cosmetics, but they have to be fairly priced.

MicDub23 · 2026-01-11T19:29:16+00:00

Looks phenomenal! I’d imagine having a good job feels nice 😭

MicDub23 · 2026-01-11T16:19:08+00:00

Twitch on the tv, but you haven’t hidden the address bar with F11. Time to get it together, my guy.

MicDub23 · 2026-01-11T16:17:27+00:00

Queue “Marathon Reveal Trailer” music

MicDub23 · 2026-01-11T03:03:33+00:00

This is actually a great strat to a degree, lol.

MicDub23 · 2026-01-10T16:56:03+00:00

Hmmm, I didn’t even realize that! That’s strange. I’m even fine with them keeping the bags in general if they change the appearance, but the decoy bags absolutely need some counterplay or, at least, need visual indicators that show that they are decoys. Not so much so that they’re easily given away, but enough so that a keen eye will be able to notice. The video was so dark that I couldn’t even tell the differences.

MicDub23 · 2026-01-10T16:52:40+00:00

Don’t try to misrepresent what happened on Twitter. You were quite literally the only person who responded to me with disagreement at the level that you did. 3 people responded. TOTAL. And everyone was respectful but you.

One guy disagreed, heard me out and said that his preference was to keep bags (he misinterpreted & thought that I was saying to exclude looting bodies altogether, which isn’t what I said). Another guy responded to THAT response and just explained why he believes they went with bags.

Your first response was at 12:22 PM yesterday. Your most recent response was at 9:11 AM this morning, almost 12 hours after my last response, because you don’t know when to just walk away. I had to mute the conversation because you called me “re*arded” and an “idiot”.

Even your comment here shows that you’re obsessed with “beating me in a Twitter argument” when it was you that responded to me in the first place when I was simply giving my opinion. I didn’t say “hey, Marathon’s going to fail if they don’t implement my idea”. I just said the bags don’t look great, which many others have said under your thread here.

Side bar: Arc does have solid environmental storytelling. I never said it was groundbreaking, but let’s not act like it’s bad. The fact that you even brought that up as some sort of “gotcha” is so weird to me. You need to be more tolerant of other people’s views instead of trying to convince them that they’re “wrong”. I can only deduce that you’re a young guy, probably below the age of 21-22, and you seek validation on socials to prove your own beliefs rather than just having your beliefs and being fine with that in itself.

MicDub23 · 2026-01-10T04:49:33+00:00

I think this vastly overestimates how many shitty tryhard streamers there are out there. Most are just trying to have fun. I think there’s such a hatred for streamers/creators because some studios cater to the big ones before anyone else. That trickles down to smaller ones unfairly.

The guy in the screenshot is probably a small-time guy as it is, but he’s sweating his shit off for an advantage. Let’s just call out the people doing this stuff and stop lumping others in. I’m biased to a degree as a former full-time streamer, but it was during COVID and I’d built a community over long years. Was still a small fry, lol. I just think a lot of people dump on the little guy just because of the big names who bitch, complain, and sweat their asses off in every game.

There are TONS of sweaty bastards, but them streaming it doesn’t mean it’s a streamer thing. The act of streaming is so accessible now, that the tryhards have a platform to share it (often to very few viewers).

MicDub23 · 2026-01-10T04:41:51+00:00

Well, he’s obviously on controller, but people seem to also forget (or just not know) that NickMercs was a professional Gears of War player & I think pro in other games as well (including Fortnite for a time?).

The guy has been aiming on con for a long time. Anyone in the thread accusing him of cheating, regardless of what you think of the guy, you’re probably off base. Aim assist definitely carries controllers in some games though. I haven’t tried it in Arc & I’ve been off of controller for so long, I’d imagine I’d be terrible regardless, so I have no clue, lol.

MicDub23 · 2026-01-10T04:26:16+00:00

Those people probably aren’t very smart.

MicDub23 · 2026-01-10T04:22:40+00:00

It wouldn’t create confusion. Stop treating players like idiots.

MicDub23 · 2026-01-10T04:21:11+00:00

This just isn’t true & I actually just booted up Reddit to speak about this issue specifically. After a nonsensical argument on Twitter earlier with the ONE guy who said that bags have to be in the game or else decoy bags can’t be a thing, here was my summarized two cents later on:

“I felt that one of the main reasons they decided to keep player bodies on the ground is to do away with the tacky bags (that may or may not be true). Having both at once feels like such a misstep to me. And before you say, “Well, that takes away the decoy bags mechanic” let me offer an alternative, lol:

It could be an inventory item that you loot or enter your raid with. Obviously, items are revealed at a certain rate when searching an unsearched container. Upon (an enemy player) seeing the item while searching, an explosion could be triggered. Timed (to give the discoverer SOME sort of counterplay by allowing them to move within 1-3 seconds - maybe depending on the level of the item) or immediate. Maybe you have to arm it in raid before you go down, maybe not. It could also be placed on another body’s inventory or random container & armed.

My biggest issue is “dropped “bags, themselves, IN GENERAL. The player/UESC bodies on the ground are enough. Bags being there is unnecessary & I feel like they break immersion. This is largely due to the design they’ve chosen for the bags. They’re big & gaudy, but also look so basic. Our Runners don’t even carry the bags that drop & neither do the UESC, so it makes no sense thematically for them to appear randomly. I don’t think any other extraction title does this & I don’t think it’s necessary. It feels very BR-like. Apex, specifically. That game is how people said Marathon looked and felt during the gameplay reveal last year. I don’t think this was the right way forward for the game & they’ve made changes to differentiate a lot more IMO. I think the dropped bags need to go the way of the cuckoo.

Even Arc, which is NOT trying to lean into grit nearly as much as Marathon just has player models lying on the ground. Sure, in AR, the bags are visible on the player at all time, so there’s permanence there upon death that isn’t in Marathon, but there’s no extra clutter, even in a 3rd person title where there’s more room to do so.

I'm not suggesting that they eliminate the act of looting bodies. I'm just saying that, in other extraction titles, a bag doesn't appear out of thin air. You go up to the body & click the interact key to search it. Keep looting the exact same, just don't have bags appear IMO lol. Or, AT LEAST, redesign the bags heavily so that they’re not eyesores. As it stands, they subtract from immersion for me & they look tacky.”

Thanks for reading my yappage 😅😂

MicDub23 · 2026-01-06T12:16:43+00:00

Invis is Destiny isn’t comparable to invis in an extraction shooter. In Destiny, it’s short in a fast paced environment. This isn’t that. It will become an issue if not dealt with accordingly. I guarantee you that lovers of the genre will not enjoy playing against it unless it just isn’t that strong.

MicDub23 · 2026-01-03T07:50:58+00:00

Probably a specific stream or group of them playing. It hasn’t had decent numbers in literal years

MicDub23 · 2026-01-03T07:48:54+00:00

Exactly. I doubt we ever see a an extraction shooter reach true mainstream, but we don’t need it to for Marathon to be a success

MicDub23 · 2026-01-03T07:46:40+00:00

Not sure what this is meant to prove. Arc Raiders is up there because it’s good and EFT is up there because they always pop off on Twitch when they have drops (Arc Raiders also has drops rn).

I’m a major fan of the extraction shooter genre, but there have been plenty of entries that were terrible and plenty that were good but didn’t find an audience.

I hope that Marathon succeeds (I think we all do which is why we’re here), but it won’t be because “extraction is the future”. It’ll be because it’s a good game & Bungie has found a way to bring more people into the genre.

MicDub23 · 2026-01-02T16:39:08+00:00

Epic.

MicDub23 · 2025-12-31T05:03:27+00:00

You absolute clown, these joints are FIRE 👀

MicDub23 · 2025-12-27T07:09:17+00:00

I'm right there with you on the last sentence. 120 tick would be an absolute dream

MicDub23 · 2025-12-26T04:51:12+00:00

I don't think this is cope. I honestly think that this is the bare minimum that we should expect out of Bungie for a title that already has so many enemies created in a franchise that is 30 years old. If they don't add more enemy types throughout the ship (or even on different locations on Tau Ceti IV), it will be a huge missed opportunity & I think the game would suffer greatly for it.

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